Region Selector: Highlight Any Country in One Click

Highlighting a country on a map used to mean hunting down boundary files and tracing polygons by hand. Region Selector reduces all of it to a single click on any country, state, or city.

One click to a finished highlight

1. In the editor, open the search bar and switch to the Regions tab.
2. Click any country, state, or city in the list.
3. Pick the reveal: solid fill, drawn outline, or a soft fade-in.

That's the whole workflow. The boundary data and animation timing are handled for you. When you want full control over the draw-on effect, here's how to animate a country border highlight step by step.

Fast enough for a deadline

Because a highlight takes seconds instead of an afternoon, the Regions tab is the backbone of fast animated map graphics for news. Election-night states, storm-affected counties, breaking-story regions: all clickable in the time it takes to say them on air.

Match the highlight to the story

Highlights inherit your map style, so a region pops in the palette you build in Theme Studio rather than a default blue. Stack several regions to show an empire's reach. That's exactly how we traced the Roman road network as a map video, lighting up provinces one by one.

Once your region is glowing, give it a name on screen: Label Styler adds custom text and callouts that reveal right alongside the highlight.